QuickPad Help

Adding Notes

1. Click the "add" (add_circle) icon in the side panel footer to create a new note.
2. A new empty note will be created.
3. The first line with text in a note is used as the note title.
4. Note changes are auto-saved.

Deleting Notes

1. While viewing a note, click the "delete" (delete) icon in the note toolbar. While viewing the notes list, hover your cursor over the note and click the same icon.
2. A confirmation message is displayed.
3. Click "Delete" to delete the note.
4. If you have backups enabled, the corresponding note in your Google Drive will be moved to the trash.

Note Search

1. While viewing the notes list, type your search query into the search field (search) in the header.
2. Your notes list will be filtered by any note content that has a partial or complete match with the entered query. For example, if you typed in "ban", you would see all notes that contain a word starting with these characters, such as "banana", "bandana", or "banned".
3. Click the "clear" (cancel) icon to reset the notes list.

Note Data

• Note data is stored in your browser's local database..
• You can close the side panel or quit out of your browser and your note data will persist.
• If you uninstall the extension, your local data may be lost.
• To prevent the risk of data loss, enabling note backup (see below) is strongly recommended.

Enable Note Backup

1. Click the "backup" (backup) icon in the side panel footer.
2. Review the instructions. Note that you may be required to approve additional permissions for the extension as well as sign into your Google account.
3. Click continue and follow any prompts.
4. A folder titled "QuickPad Backup" will be created in your Google Drive and all existing notes are backed up to this folder. (If you have a lot of existing notes, this process may take a while.)
5. The backup icon in the side panel footer should now update to be a "backup done" (cloud_done) icon. Notes will now be automatically backed up.
6. You can click this icon any time to disable backup. (See below.)

How backups work

• Existing notes will be backed up immediately when backup is enabled.
• New notes are backed up as you update them.
• When notes are deleted, the corresponding note in your drive is moved to the trash bin.

Disable note backup

1. Click the "backup done" (cloud_done) icon in the side panel footer.
2. Click disable backup.
3. Disabling will result in the following:

• Notes will now no longer be backed up to your Google Drive.
• Existing notes in the Drive will remain untouched.
• The authorization you provided to give the application access to your Google Drive will be revoked.
• You can re-enable backups at any time.

Text Formatting

• Format your content either using the basic options in the side panel toolbar or using markdown.
• For example, you can create a heading by typing # My heading or create a bulleted list by typing - First bullet.

Adding or Updating Links

• Links that are pasted into a note are automatically converted to clickable links.
• To add a link to existing text, highlight the text and click the "link" (link) icon in the toolbar. A dialog will appear. Paste the link into the "Link" field and click Save.
• To edit an existing link, click on the link. A set of menu options will appear.
• In the link menu, click the "open in new" (open_in_new) icon, to open the link in a new tab, click the "edit" (edit) icon, to update either the link text or the link URL, or click the "remove link" (link_off) icon, to remove the link.

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Troubleshooting Bugs/Issues

• Try restarting your browser
• If you are having issues with your notes backup, try signing out and signing back in to your Google account, and/or try disabling and re-enabling backup.
• If the issue persists, send us an email (see below.)

Feedback / Questions

Send any questions or feedback about the extension to [email protected]